Mass Communication Theory Literature Review
Your final research paper for this class must be related to mass communication theory. For this assignment, you will conduct a relevant literature review to discover the mass communication theory that you will use in your final paper.
- Begin by reviewingCommunicationtheoriesto investigate whether any ofthese mass communication theoriesrelates to your paper's research question.
Research question "How does reliance on social media for news and information affect news consumers' perspectives on the world?"
- Once you have reviewed the theories,selectonemasscommunication theory that appears to be related to your paper's research question.
- Locateand researchthree academic journal articles about your theory.
- Based on what you learn,drafta couple pages in which youexplainhow the mass communication theory that you have chosen relates to your final paper's research question.
Do not merely summarize the three articles about the theory that you selected. Instead, synthesise what you learned by giving enough information about each article (e.g., its purpose, its study results, how it explains a mass communication behavior or media effect, etc.) so that readers will understand your argument for how/why using the article would inform and support your use of the theory in your final paper for this class. You will be graded on your argument, not on your ability to paraphrase what is written in the articles.